![]() ![]() He received the 2008 Turquoise Chalice Award to honor his dedication to this organization. Currently, Maynard serves as President and CEO of The Storehouse, an independently funded, nonprofit food pantry in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Maynard gained public and literary attention for his depiction of adolescent life in a rural mining town in his first novel, Crum, and received a Literary Fellowship in Fiction from the National Endowment for the Arts to complete its sequel, Screaming with the Cannibals.Īn avid outdoorsman and conservationist, Maynard is a mountaineer, sea kayaker, skier, and former professional river runner. The adults are cramped in and clueless, hemmed in by the. ![]() In Crum, a gritty coal town on the West Virginia-Kentucky border, the boys fight, swear, chase and sometimes catch girls. Browse plot descriptions, book covers, genres, pseudonyms, ratings and awards. His work has appeared in such publications such as Columbia Review of Literature, Appalachian Heritage, Kestrel, Reader's Digest, The Saturday Review, Rider Magazine, Washington Post, Country America, and The Christian Science Monitor. A complete list of all Lee Maynards books & series in order (5 books) (1 series). ![]() Lee Maynard was born and raised in the hardscrabble ridges and hard-packed mountains of West Virginia, an upbringing that darkens and shapes much of his writing. ![]()
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